Change Lead/Support

North Highland Consulting; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

North Highland Consulting in Portland, OR is seeking an Organizational Change Manager to lead readiness, stakeholder engagement, and adoption planning for an 8-month, onsite assignment. You will coordinate with program leaders and cross-functional teams to ensure change readiness and adoption across the assigned implementation scope, with emphasis on governance and measurable adoption outcomes.

Applicants should have enterprise change experience, strong impact assessment skills, and the ability

Qualifications

• Enterprise change or transformation leadership experience
• Strong stakeholder engagement and impact assessment experience
• Experience building readiness, adoption, and reinforcement plans
• Experience working in complex, global, or matrixed environments
• Prosci certification preferred
• Ability to coordinate across program, communications, learning, business, and technology teams
• Clear understanding of the role boundary: adoption strategy for assigned scope; program leadership owns the integrated delivery plan, milestones, dependencies, and governance

Responsibilities

• Develop change and adoption plans aligned to the implementation roadmap
• Conduct stakeholder, impact, and readiness assessments
• Activate leaders, sponsors, and change networks
• Define and monitor readiness and adoption indicators
• Coordinate with program, communications, learning, business, technology, and analytics partners
• Own the adoption strategy for assigned scope while partnering with program leadership on the broader delivery plan

Skills

Enterprise change

Stakeholder engagement

Adoption planning

Readiness assessments

Matrixed environments

Prosci cert (preferred)

Job description

MAKE STRATEGY A REALITY | ACCELERATE YOUR GROWTH | CHOOSE YOUR PATH

As the world's leading change and transformation consultancy, we're helping businesses move from strategy to reality by taking a pragmatic and practical approach to build solutions that last.

We're seeking an Organizational Change Manager in Portland, OR for our retail and consumer products practice to help drive change readiness, stakeholder engagement, and adoption for assigned implementation scope. This is a 8-month contract assignment, onsite 4 days a week in the Portland Metro Area.

SUMMARY:

As an Organizational Change Manager, you will own readiness, stakeholder engagement, and adoption planning for your assigned implementation scope. You will help ensure leaders, teams, and impacted users are prepared for change and able to adopt new ways of working effectively.

YOU WILL:

• Develop change and adoption plans aligned to the implementation roadmap
• Conduct stakeholder, impact, and readiness assessments
• Activate leaders, sponsors, and change networks
• Define and monitor readiness and adoption indicators
• Coordinate with program, communications, learning, business, technology, and analytics partners
• Own the adoption strategy for assigned scope while partnering with program leadership on the broader delivery plan

IDEALLY, WE'D LIKE:

• Enterprise change or transformation leadership experience
• Strong stakeholder engagement and impact assessment experience
• Experience building readiness, adoption, and reinforcement plans
• Experience working in complex, global, or matrixed environments
• Prosci certification preferred
• Ability to coordinate across program, communications, learning, business, and technology teams
• Clear understanding of the role boundary: this role owns adoption strategy for assigned scope; program leadership owns the integrated delivery plan, milestones, dependencies, and governance

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States, without the need for visa sponsorship by North Highland. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided, either now or in the future, for this position. This is a temporary employee (W2) opportunity.

North Highland is an equal opportunity employer, and we adhere to all applicable laws and regulations to ensure a fair and equitable workplace. All qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We handle all information in accordance local privacy standards and maintain strict confidentiality.